happened here on tuesday, and i m here at a makeshift memorial in the town square in view yauld. it has just been teaming with people coming to pay their respects. people coming from all over texas, really, all over the country, to give gifts i saw a woman who was a teacher who brought a cart full of stuffed animals for the families coming to pay their respects to lay at each individual cross that was put here for each individual person murdered, and that is 21 people. 19 children, of course, and two teachers. and president biden is here as we speak in uvalde. he is playing his all-too familiar role, comforting families following an unspeakable tragedy. they visited the memorial site at robb elementary school before heading to a mass service. they re going to spend the afternoon meeting with families and first responders. it s a solemn task made even more difficult by what appear to be some serious failures of law enforcement and its response to tuesday s mass shooting. the
good thursday morning to you. i am jim shooter. and i m erica hill. the nation mourns the census loss of 19 children and two teachers. new questions are emerging about the timeline of events and how police responded. cnn say the killer was on school grounds for up to an hour before officers breached the classroom and killed him. why did it take as long as it did for the tactical team to go in? we know that several officers were off duty. they still responded to the scene. again, trying to establish exactly the timeline, as far as the response time, we know that officers were on scene, as i mentioned earlier. we had the school resource officer that was on scene. still again, they tried to establish his role. we had secondary officers that arrived on scene with gunfire upon entering the school. we know that law enforcement was there. there was immediate presence from law enforcement. again, trying to establish a timeline. we need to gather all the facts. we are trying to
are reviewing a 180-page manifesto authored by the suspect and posted online. he describes himself as a fascist, and antisemite who picked up these beliefs from the internet, including this racist conspiracy theory that claims whites are being culturally replaced by non-white groups and immigrants. he turned those words into action police say unleashing terror on workers, shoppers going about their weekend. witnesses describe a horrifying scene. the suspect fired while live streaming the attack. the store security guard tried to stop the shooter and lost his life. the fire chief showed up at the scene to find out his mother did not make it out of the store alive. victor, this is just a horrendous crime. it is just heartbreaking to see what s happened there in buffalo. this alleged gunman traveled hours to carry out this attack. what else are we learning? reporter: heartbreaking indeed, jim. there are a lot of broking hearts here. the music you hear in the background is gosp
neighborhood. two federal law enforcement sources say investigators are reviewing a 180-page manifesto allegedly written by the teen. in it, the author describes himself as a fascist, a white supremacist and antisemite who picked upmost of these beliefs from the internet, including his f fi fi fixition that whites are being replaced. he sprayed gunfire at the entry of the store while live streaming the attack. the family members of those killed has been notified. the store security guard lost his life in trying to stop the gunman. tomorrow, flags on new york s state buildings will be lowered to half staff. victor blackwell is on the scene in buffalo. just a heartbreaking tragedy, victor. i can t imagine the emotions that you re encountering there on the scene. reporter: yeah, jim, when i was walking up here to this scene earlier today, i met an elderly woman. she was one of three coming to the scene. she said that she came here just to support this community, the people who
two critical senate hearings are happening now on capitol hill. first up mayokas and f.b.i. director christopher wray are testifying on the threats to america that are now growing. open border will do that. they are pointing to an explosion of anti-semitism we re seeing as well since hamas terrorists tortured, raped, killed, israeli citizens on october 7th. the second hearing defense secretary austin and secretary of state antony blinken also facing questions today for their part on america s response so far to the 25 attacks on u.s. military men and women serving in the middle east. and testimony was just getting underway at that hearing when police had to remove disruptive protestors from the gallery. first it was a woman, just one, and then it was a crowd. stop funding this brutal massacre. israel s genocide is a terrible thing. pray for the children of gaza. cease-fire now. harris: they held up their hands covered in what we assume is fake blood, paint, somethin